I have spent the last few weeks thinking about what the new year and the new decade will bring.  I am happy to leave 2009, which was a strange year, at least I felt strange about it.  Not much was accomplished in my civilian career because I spent much of the year deployed to Kosovo with the National Guard.  It was an interesting experience, but it put me behind in building new skills for my civilian career.  So….2010 is the year to jump start my career.  Fortunately, I do have a good job, one that will provide excellent experience for me in the coming year.

So other then doing my day to day work at my job, what I am going to do to jump start and beef up my SQL Server skill set? I will focus on the following 3 items:

1. Increase my blogging.  My goal this year is to post at least once per week, 52 times this next year.  Writing about a subject is a good learning experience, at least for me.
2. Take and pass the two exams for SQL Server 2008 development,  70-433 & 70-451.
3. Attend at least 4 in-person events relating to SQL Server.  This could be a code camp, PASS, local user group, or some classroom training.  It just has to be in person and related to SQL Server in some way.

So, here’s to a great new year!